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You know who else missed all that "domestic turmoil" Beers? Most of your candidate's supporters.

Off the Obama bus too, along with WaPo. Not only did they report the statements, but the CONTRASTED them to Obama's public statements.

I bet Obama would like a do-over for June.

"If they were merely incompetent, then at least SOME of their actions would have been to the benefit of the country."

1. Um, McCain's father was the commander of the whole Pacific theater during the war, McCain heard anti-war speeches broadcast into his cell, he was entreated to meet with anti-war groups, and he wrote a War College thesis in 1973 focusing on the effect of that movement on POWs. It's laughable to suggest he's somehow ignorant of what went on.

2. I love this irony:

because McCain was in an unfortunate state of "isolation" during much of the Vietnam War, he missed the domestic turmoil which took place in the United States

You know who else was living in Southeast Asia far from the U.S. political scene in 1967-71? Barack Obama, Indonesian schoolboy, that's who.

3. A quotation from Thomas Jefferson about his political opponents comes to mind:

They say we lied them out of power, and openly avow they will do the same by us.

Convinced that "swift-boating" was both untruthful and effective, but not understanding why, the former Kerryites avow to do the same to McCain. Hilarity ensues.

"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill

This is the defense:

his national security experience is "sadly limited" as a result

Maybe those bitter, Bible and gun-toting small town Pennsylvanians have started to realize Obama has a non-existent resume. Ignorant peasants, hiss.

Now, we all know that people think he was a mighty precocious ten year old, and that that gives him more experience of the Vietnam War and the prior and subsequent foreign policy than what John McCain has.

I know that when I was 10 years old I thought I knew more than anyone else in the world, too.

And ten years later, Barack was a student at Columbia College, and a lot of people from that time remember him very well. It's hard to see how that changes the equation vis-a-vis his foreign policy experience. Except maybe as a quiet subversive and an elaborate self-promoter...

He takes a job in an unidentified “consulting house to multinational corporations,” where he is “a spy behind enemy lines,” startled to find himself with a secretary, a suit and money in the bank.

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“All of Barack’s embellishment serves a larger narrative purpose: to retell the story of the Christ’s temptation. The young, idealistic, would-be community organizer gets a nice suit, joins a consulting house, starts hanging out with investment bankers, and barely escapes moving into the big mansion with the white folks.”

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Like other transfer students, Mr. Obama lived off campus and bounced from one apartment to another. For a while, he said, he lived with a Pakistani whom he calls Sadik. He recalls that when he lived in a walk-up on East 94th Street, he would chat with his Puerto Rican neighbors about the Knicks or the sound of gunfire at night.

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“Sometimes, coming out of an interview with Japanese financiers or German bond traders, I would catch my reflection in the elevator doors — see myself in a suit and tie, a briefcase in my hand — and for a split second I would imagine myself as a captain of industry, barking out orders, closing the deal, before I remembered who it was that I had told myself I wanted to be and felt pangs of guilt for my lack of resolve,” Mr. Obama wrote.

And now he finds himself as the Democratic Party's nominee for President, with a legion of supporters, a war chest full of George Soros' friends' money, and yes -- still a nice suit. Now he's sure of who he wants to be -- the President of the United States.

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The hard left (a majority of Dems btw) is only strengthening our support for McCain. So many conserves came into this half hearted. If Obama and his leftist allies played it down the middle, they would have a good chance of depressing the Repub vote and winning. The more they attack McCain's service, the more votes they will lose. I think people are finally realizing that this is an either, or situation, and Obama and the anti-American left would be a stain we might never recover from.

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Let me see if I got this right -

McCain's experience, fighting in air-to-air combat, seeing his friends killed, getting shot down, seeing the enemy close-up, being in Hanoi during air raids, and spending five years in a filthy cell being tortued by the enemies of this country, doesn't convey a deep enough understanding of the horrors of war.

Or, that is, not the kind of in-depth understanding he would have gotten, had he been on a nice, clean college campus, drinking, toking, going to the protest rallies to get laid strike a blow for peace, and most importantly, watching the war on TV.

That's pretty much what they're saying, right?

Just exactly what and how much do you have to have smoked in the 60's before this makes any sense?
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"You can't save the Earth unless you're willing to make other people sacrifice" - Scott Adams (speaking through Dogbert)

You have surrogates heap as much bs on your opponent as possible to try and paralyze their image and campaign. All the while you deny your surrogates, toss them under the bus, and give feint praise to your opponent to prove you are above the "usual" politics of destruction.

and the architect of an unsuccessful candidate's foreign policy are to be believed above all other experts?

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